On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:10PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:41:11 -0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real > > problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts > > of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are > > new/unexperienced in that task? > > The Debian X Strike Force are much older, crustier, and vastly more > experienced than you or I. Please understand that the UNSTABLE release > is meant to have issues like this and should not be used for production > systems. > > I for one think that there has been much to much complaining about the > recent x-org bugs, including insulting bug reports posted to the > tracking system, than the X team deserves. Unstable is where new and > untested packages enter the Debian release system. Occasionally an > unstable bug is going to occur that will bring down a system. I think > the X team has done a fine job of correcting the bugs and getting work > around information to the Unstable users.
and given the size and complexity of the X system, their efforts are laudable. Frankly, I'm amazed that it works at all, and am grateful for the learning opportunity when it doesn't. Thanks for speaking up on this Bill. A
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